CVE-2026-93057

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: ufs: core: Avoid possible memory reclaim deadlock in TX EQTR context

TX EQTR may run while devfreq gear scaling has quiesced the UFS tagset. In that context, functions ufshcd_tx_eqtr(), __ufshcd_tx_eqtr() and ufs_qcom_get_rx_fom() allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. If direct reclaim is triggered, reclaim/writeback can depend on I/O to UFS device. Because the queue is quiesced, this can cause deadlock.

Use memalloc_noio_save/restore() in ufshcd_tx_eqtr() to cover all allocations in the TX EQTR call tree, including:

  • params->eqtr_record in ufshcd_tx_eqtr()

  • eqtr_data in __ufshcd_tx_eqtr()

  • params in ufs_qcom_get_rx_fom()

This is preferred over tagging individual call sites with GFP_NOIO, as it automatically covers any future allocations added anywhere in the call tree without requiring each caller to be aware of this constraint.

[mkp: fix label as suggested by Bart]

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux03e5d38e2f985d8d0b0a60508c0b422f664808e3 < a28a7d9b3bb116da788ae492c90465ec1a7fa6e8affected
LinuxLinux03e5d38e2f985d8d0b0a60508c0b422f664808e3 < 760fc6f0e25a72832c2fcf37ecf5f1b770ec8374affected
LinuxLinux7.1affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.1unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.6 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc1 <= *unaffected

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